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I have windows 7 on my Dell Inspiron 17R 3521 The laptop came with Windows 8 as the default software and naturally enough (my opinion) I hated it. So I installed windows 7 dual boot with ubuntu 14.04 and what I have now is a laptop that takes 5 minutes or more to get full up and running which is crazy if we take into account the specs of the laptop (or at least that's what I think)
This is the System as windows sees it.
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3537U CPU @ 2.00 Ghz 2.50 Ghz
Installed memory(RAM): 8,00 GB (7,89 GB usable)
System type: 64-bit Operating System
It also has switchable graphics:
Intel(R) HD 4000
AMD Radeon (TM) HD 8XXX Series.
I thought... THOUGHT (apparently was wrong) that the tinny little bit that says i7 would make a huge difference compared to my other computers... but it didn't.
Is this delay slowness natural for my system? Is there something I can do to improve it? I don't have a million start up processes, the heavier one must be Avast antivirus.
When I'm in ubuntu... it is fast enough, and much faster than it is with windows.
Don't know if this is all the information you need to tell me what's the problem if any. Please help me make my laptop stand on its "feet".
Ty in advance.
Is it a fresh install, or were you using it for a while before it started to slow down? If you hard drive is near capacity, that can kill performance, as well as any programs that automatically launch during startup. – Adam – 2014-09-30T16:09:42.153